ClackerBuzz

x2. you should be talking him into dropping his ducketts for dobyns. or save ur breath. you can lead a horse to water but can't make him drink. ducketts are nice but you have the better rods.

this^^ and you are shore fishing which really requires the 'right' tackle ie heavy. in a boat/kayak/canoe etc you at least have a shot of paddling over and trying to work the fish from above. from the bank you just flat out need horizontal winch power. great story and i hope you stick another one soon

my quest to learn structure fishing is a 2:1 ratio and is as follows: -get butt kicked trying to structure fish 2 hrs. -go shallow for 1 hr and have fun catching fish. repeat. on a more serious note I use jigs for silent and chatterbaits for noise. use a 'search' style bait that you are comfortable with. a jig or carolina rig are probably the most common that most guys have in their box (w/o having to invest in deep cranks or heavy/long rods). i did learn a few things so far. use ur experience reading above the water to help read structure/below the water. if there are 10 coves but only 1 has a stream tricking in, fish the structure off that cove. if there are 10 docks, fish the dock that is closest to the deepest water. if there are 10 points, fish the point that is closest to the creek channel.etc etc lush/steep banks covered in tall trees, boulders, drop offs are much better shorelines compared to slow tapering, coverless/desert looking bush banks. if i "like" the look of a shoreline for shallow fishing and I'm confident i'll catch fish shallow, I'll start fishing 10>50 yds off shore and usually can pick up something close. the farther off shore i get, the more jambalaya I eat i still need to try and meet up with Shane to get my ratio to 1:1.

Nice job. Officially you can't weigh 'slobness. Although my ex would beg to differ.

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does that mean ur going to an all-you-can-eat buffet of humble pie?

abort the spinnerbait and switch to a chatterbait in the weeds. the lure has an amazing vibration/action that literally vibrates weeds right off it. you can even let it drop into the weeds on purpose (kill it) and rip hard to pull it back up/out. if that bite is 'on' it gets violent strikes. and you can bounce it thru the weed tops and not pick up a thing, unlike swivels of spinner blades. the lure has literally changed how i fish weeds. and they bounce off the bottom/rocks/stumps much better. its basically the same 'style' lure as a spinner ie blade/vibration. i can't remember the last time i bought a spinnerbait bc chatter's have replaced them

i think i heard aaron martin say it in an interview "and what ever you do, don't throw a senko when the crankbait bite is on". ie don't go for frog nibble bites when they are crushing a ______ (fill in/figure out the blank).

this guy better buy a computer fast or he's going to go broke buying dinners. does he know about the world wide internets?

very sad to hear for both people. i hope the judge has common sense, compasion, social skills and gives ur buddy a warning. and i hope the DNR guy learns more about people and karma sooner than later. no doubt he has and had many problems past, present and future. 'live by the sword, die by the sword' makes for a very long, hard and lonley life

I think line matters less than 5% of the time. #1 is location #2 is presentation (being that multiple lures will work at any given time but presentation must be correct) #3 type of lure. #4 color....# way way down: line. fluorocarbon requires a learning curve when tying terminal knots. and it def requires learning when tying connection knots. it doesn't sound like ur ready to go thru this learning curve. you can skip all this by going braid to co-poly ie Yo Zuri. co-poly knots cinch down as easy as mono and remain strong. you could 'upgrade' to braid with co-poly with ease. or go with all Yo Zuri. Great line and you won't be disappointed. lake Erie is def a big lake environment so the fish aren't as line shy as a small stable farm pond. lots of guys use straight (small diameter) braid and I wouldn't hesitate if i lived there. Dwight is a lake Erie smallie slaying god. i would hesitate to buy maxima ultragreen

waste not, want not. add some salt and slurp it down like eyeball caviar

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many non swimmers fish long health lives with a life vest and kill switch. i'd feel much safer with an emergency beacon too. you also have to be extra smart b/c u can't swim ie no heading out in 20mph winds just to scratch ur fishing itch; or taking the boat into a dangerous area so you can cast at a 'perfect looking spot' etc. an adult swim class would be much easier than you think. they are going to put a paddle board in front of you and teach you to kick. remove the board and ur doing the doggie paddle. i'll give you some advice from an incident where i almost drown when i was younger. i was trying to cross a river with friends and got caught in some really bad current. i fought the current to exhaustion b/c i was 'only' 100 ft from shore (100ft is like 4 miles in current). i fully cramped up and was one breath from going under. i instinctually rolled over on my back to keep my mouth above water. the light bulb went off to just float as far as life would take me. luckily there was no dam, debris, bluffs etc. i floated over a mile down river and just washed up on shore. if you take the swim class, get comfortable floating on ur back (w/o a life vest). it's better to float on ur back for day's waiting for the calvary to come than to swim/fight till exhaustion and drown, which is what many people do

sounds like a knot issue. mono line is more forgiving with knot tying. fluoro burns easily ie gets brittle and breaks. sit down in front of the t.v. one night and tie ur knot a hundred times. make sure the knot lies down properly. wet it good. a palomar knot burns easily. make sure to pull the tag end thru. you want to 'burn' the tag end, not the main line. the san diego jam knot is one of the best b/c you can cinch it down (actually pushing it up the line) while not burning line. and it lays down nice. testing the break strength will improve ur skills and increase confidence. don't wait till ur on the water w/ a fish on the end. use ur hands and break ur line while watching t.v. pull to the breaking point at 12". try it with another knot at 24". experiment and break at different lengths. only other possibility is backlashes are kinking/compromising ur line. does this breakage happen after a baitcaster backlash? or ru using spinning gear? if you use spinning gear then its def a knot tying problem.

you're gonna have to accept the fact that you fish one of the most heavily fished ponds in the country. it's shallow with little cover. don't watch youtube videos of Glenn or KVD crushing bass on spinnerbaits and think you're going to do the same. they are on COMPLETELY different fisheries. that is def more of a soft plastic fishery. and you should be proud you are catching them on artificial lures . that is an accomplishment in itself b/c many guys there use live bait and take the fish home for dinner. many baits just aren't going to be right for there (an Alabama rig, 8" Huddleston, 3/4oz jig are more like motor boats to those fish than food). over 50% of fish caught end up as dinner so the remaining fish are very cautious. a spinnerbait might work but the window of opportunity is going to be VERY small. try dusk or dawn and try a very small Beetle spin or 1/4oz booyah pond magic. spring/fall is ur next best time. if you want to become an expert in other lures and a better angler you should find new/unpressured water outside city limits. north jersey has amazing reservoirs that are used as drinking water for nyc. or take the train down to south jersey and i'll take you out of some water that you can cast any lure you want. there are pickerel down here that will literally bite ur spinnerbait right off ur line. if you want to say close to home you have access to great tidal water. maybe forget about strictly bass and try a different species. there are monster catfish in the hudson. grab some heavier gear and hotdogs and have a blast

non aggressive fish in the middle of August heat? i wouldn't use a spinnerbait what's ur location? i'd dead stick a weightless soft plastic (if ya really get bored put some slow 12" drags in the mix). master the spinnerbait in the fall. master patience and soft plastics now. http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/13845-guaranteed-to-catch-bass/

Microsoft Word. Also has my cleaning log for each reel (from simple touch up w/ oil/grease to a full break down). i use a Sharpie to label each reel at several places inside and out, A, B, C, D, E. that way i can move the reel around from rod to rod as needed and still have an accurate log of the line/cleaning schedule.

chocolate milk and BBQ sauce? i know we're talking fishing but ur making me hungry

can someone loan me 1,995 yen?

very nice. does this mean a central pa youtube channel? i own those same pair of summer waders

x2. just use what suits you. ur on the right track that baitcasters generally are better suited for weighted lures. specifically b/c you can thumb break during the entire cast and gently set down a 1/2oz jig or 3/4oz spinnerbaits in hard to reach places. this is very hard to do on spinning gear. ur collection will grow according to ur needs: species, bank or boat, weight of lures, size of fishery, pressure or unpressured etc. i'll only take my spinning gear when heading to heavily pressured waters b/c i'll be tossing light lures on 6-8lb line. bass in private ponds aren't usually lure/line shy so shoreline fishing requires baitcasters only with big buzzing bladed lures etc...sometimes on straight braid so i can haul pigs over the sloppy shoreline.

they do it so you don't have to skin hook the point into plastic. great in theory but the problem is after a few casts the plastic is water logged, the holes loosen and the plastic slides down the hook during a cast=exposed hook. just skin hook in the bottom of the 'reservoir' or the wall of it.

don't put the cat in a burlap sack and toss him off the bridge. let him out of the bag!

very nice fish august Jeti warrior